Then, in 1899 Berkeley residents voted to make their city an alcohol-free zone.

* 1980 – Kostas Biris, Greek architect, city planner and folklorist ( b. 1899 )

* 1899 – The Australian Premiers ' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.

The foundation of The Hague as an " international city of peace and justice " was laid in 1899, when the world's first Peace Conference took place in The Hague on Tobias Asser's initiative, followed by a second in 1907.

Reed became city solicitor of Portland 1874 – 1877, before being elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses, serving from 1877, to September 4, 1899, when he resigned.

On 1 April 1899, the city of Kattowitz was separated from the district, becoming an independent city.

In 1899 the city was the site of the Bloemfontein Conference, which failed to prevent the outbreak of the Second Boer War.

Henry Plant died in 1899, and his heirs sold the facilities to the city of Tampa in 1904.

The 1899 fire prompted Jerome to reincorporate as a city, and to adopt a building code specifying brick or masonry construction, as well as improving the fire companies.

In 1899, the Jonesboro School District was set up in the city.

Calexico began as a tent city of the Imperial Land Company, was founded in 1899, and incorporated in 1908.

Since local geological records have been kept, the city has been struck by two large earthquakes, one on Christmas Day 1899, and the other on April 21, 1918.

Ironically, the Oxnard brothers never lived in their namesake city, and they sold both the Chino and the giant red-brick Oxnard factory with its landmark twin smokestacks in 1899 for nearly $ 4 million.

Dunedin became incorporated as the City of Dunedin in 1899 in part as a response to numerous complaints about pigs running rampant in the settlement, leading to a still-standing ban on livestock within city limits.

Harrison was incorporated in 1899 and was once the largest city on Lake Coeur d ' Alene.

In 1899, Milwaukee Road railroad expanded into Lake County, providing convenient transportation from the area into the city of Chicago.

In 1910 the population was 1, 281, and the city had a bank, a daily and a weekly newspaper, an opera house, an international money order postoffice ( first opened in August 1899 ) from which mail was distributed to the surrounding country by rural free delivery, several good mercantile houses, telegraph and express offices.

When natural gas was discovered in the immediate vicinity in 1899 the city began to grow more rapidly and soon rose to be a city of importance.

In 1899, the Detroit and Charlevoix Railroad built their mainline through the East side of the city, and in 1901 the East Jordan and Southern Railway began operations on the western end of the town.

The Michigan Legislature created the City of Mackinac Island in 1899 via L. A. 437 of 1899 as a " special charter city.

His successor Joe Darling won the next three series in 1899, 1901 – 02 and the classic 1902 series, which became one of the most famous in the history of Test cricket.

Kruger won another presidential election in 1898, but the following year British forces were gathering on the borders of the Boer Republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State and fearing Britain's imminent annexation, the Boers launched a preemptive strike against the nearby British colonies in 1899, a strike which became the Second Boer War.

Kitchener's second tour in the Sudan ( 1886 – 1899 ) won him national fame, and he was made Aide de Camp to Queen Victoria and appointed a Knight Commander of the Bath ( KCB ).

They won the Southern League championship for three years running between 1897 and 1899 and again in 1901, 1903 and 1904.

Six years after the men's nationals were first held, the first official U. S. Women's National Singles Championship was held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in 1887, won by 17-year-old Philadelphian Ellen Hansell, accompanied by the U. S. Women's National Doubles Championship ( not held for the next two years ) and U. S. Mixed Doubles Championship ( not held in 1899 ).

By April 1899, his firm, McCormick & French, had won third place in the design competition for the new Luzerne County Courthouse.

Though the original song dates in the oral tradition to 1640, its modern lyrics were written by Emili Guanyavents, who won a controversial competition in 1899.

After two failed attempts in 1895 and 1899, Vardaman won the governorship in 1903 and served one four-year term ( 1904 – 1908 ).

From 1894 to 1899 he attended St Paul's School in London, and in 1899 won a classical scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected to the Cambridge Apostles.

He won first prizes at very strong tournaments in St Petersburg ( 1895 – 96, Quadrangular ), Nuremberg ( 1896 ), London ( 1899 ), Paris ( 1900 ) and St Petersburg ( 1914 ), where he overcame a 1½ point deficit to finish ahead of the rising stars, Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine, who later became the next two World Champions.

Marshall Walter " Major " Taylor ( 26 November 1878 – 21 June 1932 ) was an American cyclist who won the world track cycling championship in 1899 after setting numerous world records and overcoming racial discrimination.

During 1899 he won the world championship, preceded only by boxing bantamweight George Dixon as a black world champion in any sport.

In late 1899, Taylor raced under the colors of the Iver Johnson Arms and Cycle Company in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and won the sprint world championship by a lead of one wheel in a " thrilling " race at Montreal, Canada.

He won the 600 km Bordeaux – Paris road race ( known as The Derby of the Road ) in 1899 and held the record winning time for 34 years.

Harvard has won six men's golf championships: 1898 ( spring ), 1899, 1901, 1902 ( fall ), 1903, and 1904.

In 1880, one of his horses, Bend Or, ridden by Fred Archer, won the Derby, and he had more Derby successes in 1882, 1886, and 1899.

Jennings also played on the Brooklyn Superbas teams that won National League pennants in 1899 and 1900.

The Australian Labor Party was the world's first elected socialist party when the party won the 1899 Queensland state election.

Gotch wrestled his first match against Marshall Green in Humboldt on April 2, 1899, and won.

In 1899, with Maxim at the controls, the Pope Columbia, a gasoline-powered automobile, won the first closed-circuit automobile race in the US at Branford, Connecticut.

Lasker won ); Vienna 1898, + 12-16 = 6, fourteenth ( Tarrasch won ); Cologne 1898, + 8-5 = 2, sixth ( Burn won ); London 1899, + 7-10 = 9, eight ( Em.